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The Pilot Covers
Brunswick County
THE STATE PORT PILOT
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A Good Newspaper In A Good Community
Most of the News
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VOLUME 40
No. 45
10-(Pages Today
SOUTHPORT, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1969
54 COPY
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
E. R TOMLINSON, JR.
W. PIERCE HORNE
REV. N. H. DANIELS
HOYLE DOSHER
WILLIAM (BILL) CROWE
CONLEY D. KOONTZ
GEORGE W. PARKER
J. K. PORTERFIELD
HERMAN STRONG
Mayor Unopposed
City Election Tuesday
Mayor Eugene B. Tomlinson is
without opposition in the
municipal election scheduled to
be held Tuesday in Southport by
spirited races are in prospect in
the race for aldermen in both
wards.
In Ward No. 1 Pierce Horne
and the Kev. N. H. Daniels,
present members of the board,
seek reelection. They are
opposed for the two posts by
George W. Parker, James K.
Porterfield and Herman Strong.
Only one vacancy is to be
filled in Ward No. 2, where
Hoyle Dosher seeks reelection
for a second term. He is opposed
by William (Bill) Crov e and
Conley D. Koontz.
In Ward No. 1 voting will take
place at the Volunteer Fire
Department and in Ward No. 2
at the conference room of the
Public Library.
Horne is completing his first
term on the board, which he
serves as clerk. He is
maintenance general foreman at
Sunny Point Army Terminal, is
married, has three children, is a
Methodist and a Mason. He is a
native of Columbus county but
has lived in Brunswick county
since the nearby terminal was
first activated.
The Rev. N. H. Daniels is the
first Negro who ever has served
on the Board of Aldermen,
having been appointed the fill
the unexpired term of Dr. N. M.
Homstein when the latter moved
from Southport last fall.
He is pastor of St. James
A.M.E. Zion Church, a position
he has held for five years. He is
married but has no children.
Prior to moving to Brunswick
county he served as pastor of
Mt. Pleasant A.M.E. Zion
Church at Riegelwood. He is a
native of Johnson City, Term.
Since living in Southport he has
served on the Human Relations
Council.
George Parker is making his
first bid for public office since
moving to Southport. This was
when Sunny Point first was
activated, and since that time he
has held a number of responsible
positions at the terminal. He is
active in Boy Scout work, has
been identified with the Little
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Brunswick Boys
Sail To Capitol
The Cape Fear Technical
Institute training ship,
ADVANCE II, with her
compliment of 61 cadets is in
Washington this week. These
students are pursuing a two-year
training program to become
marine technicians, and while
there, are participating in a
one-week program of marine
science training.
The program was prepared by
Representative Alton Lennon’s
office in conjunction with the
Office of the Oceanographer of
the Navy, Rear Admiral 0. D.
Judging Team
Gets Second
The Union High FFA Chapter
participated in the livestock
judging contest held recently at
Penderlea. The dairy team won
second place, with the
opportunity to participate in the
district contest which will be
held later in Sampson county.
Members of this team are T. L.
Butler, Ray Hill, Herman Hill
and Billy Williams. Members of
the beef and swine judging team
are Elroy Stanley, Donaid
Bellamy, Robert Stanley and
Warren Bellamy.
The Union Chapter has a one
hundred percent participation
record in contests on the
federation level. Other contests
include: Public speaking, second
place, parliamentary procedure,
second place, tool identification
and forestry, third place.
Applications are now being
filed for FFA Campers. Camps
are located at Swansboro, White
Lake, and Bannersville. The fees
are $16 per week. Parents are
encouraged to give their son the
opportunity of this wonderful
experience.
Waters, Jr. At Representative
Lennon’s suggestion, a student
was invited to participate in the
program from the following
schools in North Carolina, East
and West Carteret High Schools,
Morehead City; Southport High
S :hoo 1, Southport; New
Hanover and Hoggard High
Schools of Wilmington; and
Wilmington College. Each of the
above schools either offer
courses in marine sciences or will
initiate such studies next year.
The group consists of 67
students, 52 from North
Carolina and 15 from 11
different states from Maine to
Georgia and as far west as
Wisconsin.
Some of the subjects the
students will be hearing about
include careers in the marine
sciences, the future of
oceanography, an
up-to-the-minute briefing on
Project TEKTITE by the project
leader, R. A. Waller, who, with
three other aquanauts, recently
completed a 60-day stay in an
underwater habitat—the world’s
record. Also included will be
lectures on Navy Salvage
Operation, dangerous sea life,
underwater photography and
diving. The students will learn
about charts and chart making;
and since fishing is a part of the
school’s curriculum, they will
have a lecture on international
fishing treaties and agreements
by Ambassador Donald L.
McKernan of the Department of
State. In this connection, a
George Washington University
law professor, Mr. Thomas
Clingan, will lecture on the law
of the sea and how it affects
marine research. The program
calls for visits to the United
States Naval Oceanographic
Office, the National
Oceanographic Data Center, the
National Oceanographic
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Klemm Leaves
District EDC
Post In May
Francis L. Klemm has resigned
his position as Executive
Director of the Southeastern
Economic Development
Commission, effective May 16,
1969.
The resignation came near the
end of Klemm’s First year as
executive director. He was hired
as the first man in the position
last May.
Klemm resides at Wrightsville
Beach and his future plans are
not known.
He came to the position from
Greensboro where he had been a
financial consultant for six
years. Klemm is a native of
Maryland.
No successor has been named
to the position. At this time
applications are being accepted
at the headquarters in
Elizabethtown.
The Southeastern Economic
Development Commission was
organized to undertake
economic planning and
development in southeastern
North Carolina. The Commission
establishes the organizational
frame-work to achieve
long-range economic growth
through multi-county planning.
The District program is financed
seventy-five percent by the
federal government and
twenty-five percent by the
participating counties.
The 10 counties in the
Southeastern Economic
Development Commission are
Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus,
Cumberland, Hoke, New
Hanover, Pender, Robeson,
Sampson and Scotland.
Teachers At *
State Meeting
Five members of the
Brunswick County Beta Beta
Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa, .
International Honorary
Teachers’ Sorority, attended the
Sixteenth Annual State
Convention at Lambuth Inn,
Lake Junaluska, April 25-27.
State President, Mrs. Ruth
Fox, presided over the
convention which was attended
by approximately 400 members
from across North Carolina. An
interesting program was centered
around the theme “With a Song
In Your Heart.”
All business sessions were
interesting and climaxed by an
address from Stella Dennison,
International Grand
Vice-President, who was guest
speaker at the banquet Saturday
evening.
Entertainment for the
convention included the
Roxboro High School-Varsity
Singers, directed by Mary Erie
Berger and the Senior Hand Bell
Choir of Biltmore Methodist
Church, directed by Mr. Milton
Burgess.
The Convention adjourned
after the breakfast Sunday
morning and all members left
with “A Song in Their Hearts.”
Those attending from Beta
Beta Chapter were Mrs. Lila
Hogg, Mrs. Kay Barnes, Mrs.
Claire Evans, Mrs. Janice Gore
and Mrs. Dorothy Davis.
Jail Loses
School Bond Issue Carries
Erecting Power Poles
Workmen are shown erecting poles on Howe Street as Construction of new
electric distribution lines is now underway in Southport. This project is being finan
ced by the $170,000.00 Bond Issue authorized by the citizens of Southport at a spec
ial election on February 11. (Photo by Spencer)
Quail Bill Is
Having Hard
Time Passing
By REP. ARTHUR W.
’ f WILUAMSON
Much has been said lately
about the so-called “Bob White”
quail bill, H.B. 316, which has
been passed by the House and is
now before a Senate committee.
More explanation may be in
order.
I voted for this bill because I
believe it is in the interest of
proper wildlife management and
orderly conservation practices
and also would permit our
people in North Carolina to
market pen-reared quail legally
and on the open market. This is
not now legal in our state
although I am told there is a
large and flourishing “black
market” for trapped wild birds. I
believe this bill would help
eliminate this possible depletion
of the wild population.
A legal market for pen-reared
quail exists in both South
Carolina and Virginia. Neither
state appears to have
experienced a decline in native
quail populations. As a former
chairman of the Wildlife
Committee in the House, I am
intensely interested in proper
conservation of our wildlife. I
cannot see that this bill would
be harmful. R contains proper
safeguards which I am sure the
Wildlife Resources Commission
could and would enforce.
In fact, the bill was amended
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Time And Tide
Southport had escaped a threatened outbreak of labor troubles
on the Friday night preceeding the April 26, 1939, publication of
The Pilot, and much of the credit was given to Sheriff D.L. Ganey^
and his deputies. A Standard Oil tanker had departed from
Wilmington and had anchored in the stream off Southport. On
Friday night a crew had boarded the ship here, and despite the fact
that strikers were on hand, the feat had been accomplished without
dangerous incident. There was a man in town who believed in the
age-old advice, “Paddle your own canoe.” He had, in fact, done just
that—for 1,500 miles. Richard W. Hourtley of Darien, Conn., was on
his way home from a round-trip canoe voyage to Daytona Beach Fla.
A band of students from Marietta College in Ohio had populated
Bald Head Island, if only for a few days; and feature writers of other
states were telling the story of the tropical island off the coast of
Brunswick. Kay Kyser, keeper of the Kollege of Musical Knowledge,
was appreciated in print by the Not Exactly columnist; Mr. and Mrs.
M.R. Sanders had announced the birth of a second son, John Dixon;
and members of the board of trustees of Southport Public Library
announced that Miss Susie Sellers would take over the duties of
librarian formerly handled by Mrs. Vera Willis.
Five years later one big manufacturing enterprise had been
disturbed by law enforcement officers, who had captured a
submarine, steam-type distillery in the Snowfield section.
Six-hundred gallons of mash was poured out. Mr. and Mrs. D. A.
Harvell of Bolivia had been advised that their son, Edward Lassiter
Harvell, was a prisoner of war, in the hands of the Japanese. Charles
Southerland had been elevated to the post of Captain of the U.S.E.
Dredge Comstock. ,
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Official Returns
SPECIAL BOND ELECTION
SCHOOLS JAIL
PRECINCTS Yes
Hoods Creek 96
Leland 259
Town Creek 201
Bolivia 140
Southport No. 1 384
Southport No. 2 397
Oak Island 243
Mosquito 44
Supply 76
Secession 79
Shallotte 119
Frying Pan 170
Grissettown 97
Shingletree 59
Longwood 22
Ash 43
Waccamaw 11
Exum 13
TOTAL 2453
No Yes No
51 90 53
71 202 121
127 186 136
118 108 145
48 322 108
25 348 66
37 216 61
46 45 44
170 68 175
243 55 266
146 73 188
147 98 216
83 48 131
120 37 135
94 25 91
163 35 166
77 13 75
79 12 79
1845 1981 2256
ESEA Program For
County Evaluated
KENNETH HEWETT
Shallotte Boy
State Winner
Kenneth Hewett, 16 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman
Hewett of Supply, has been
declared state winner in the 4-H
Boy’s Public Speaking Program.
A sophomore at Shallotte High
School, he has been a 4-H
member for seven years.
This is the second time this
year Kenneth has been
recognized for his outstanding
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The Advisory Committee,
Title I, ESEA, met in the
conference room of the
Brunswick County Board of
Education Monday night. The
purpose of the meeting was to
evaluate the current year’s work
and to make recommendations
for the fiscal year 1970 project.
The meeting was opened with
devotion by Mrs. Daisy Long.
After the minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved,
an informal discussion of the
Title I project was held.
Members of the committee
commented favorably about the
work that has been done so far,
and gave some helpful
suggestions for making it even
more effective for another year.
Mrs. Frances Stone, director of
Title 1, and other members of
the staff answered questions that
they were asked concerning the
program. Mrs. Stone also
explained the meaning of the
“deferred status” under which
the program is now operating,
and said that a new plan will
soon be presented to HEW
officials for their approval.
Those attending were Mrs.
Albert Young and Mrs. Elizabeth
Swain from Bolivia; Mrs. Edward
Williams, BCHS; Mrs. Clara
Marshburn and Van Galloway,
Lincoln; Mrs. Douglas Roycroft
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Brunswick county voters
approved the School Bond Issue
by a margin of 608 votes
Saturday but defeated the Jail
Bond proposition. One-half of
the 18 precincts favored the
school vote.
Approval by the voters means
that the Brunswick County
Board of Education now is
authorized to sell $2.85-million
worth of bonds with which to
help finance the construction of
three modern, consolidated high
school buildings. To this amount
will be added $506,000.00 in
bond money from the State of
North Carolina and $140,000.00
in insurance settlement received
when Southport High School
burned.
One school will be constructed
near Shallotte and will serve high
school students from Shallotte,
Waccamaw and Union. A second
school will be built between
Southport and Bolivia and will
accommodate high school
students from these two schools
as well as from Brunswick
County High School. The third
building will be erected in the
Leland area and will serve some
of the high school students
presently attending Bolivia, in
addition to the high school
students from Leland and
Lincoln.
Members of the Board of
Education have indicated that
they will give top priority to
getting on with the job of school
construction in order that the
new buildings may be ready to
occupy in the fall of 1970.
Ask Full-Time
Co-Op Manager
A $14,710 grant has been
recommended for the
Tri-County Farmers Association
by the North Carolina Rural
Fund for Development.
The grant would enable
employment of a manage of the
association and to provide
administrative support,
according to James C Cox,
executive director of Sencland
Community Action, Inc.
Announcement of the
recommended grant was made
during a meeting where a
permanent slate of officers was
elected:
President, B.J. Brady of
Columbus; vice-president, Jesse
Shaw of Columbus;
secretary-treasurer, Jerry Lewis
of Brunswick; ass’t
secretary-treasurer, Levi Dixon
of Bladen.
, A new slate of officers will be
elected at the first annual
meeting and at each succeeding
one thereafter. Annual meetings
will be held in November of each
year.
The board passed a resolution
that renewed efforts be made to
obtain suitable markets for fall
crops since the co-op was
organized too late in the year to
provide markets for spring crops.
The board further indicated that
until a manager was employed
that SENGand Community
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Tide Table
Fallowing Is the tide table
(or Southport daring the
week. These boars are ap
proximately correct and
were furnished The State
Port Pilot through the
courtesy of the Cape Fear
Pilot’s Association.
Thursday, May 1
6:81 AM 1:10 AM
7:21 PM 1:16 PM
Friday, May 2
7:39 AM 1:88 AM
6:09 PM 1:58 PM
Saturday, May 8
8:27 AM 2:46 AM
9:03 PM 2:46 PM
Sunday, May 4
9:21 AM 3:40 AM
9:87 PM 3:34 PM
Monday, May 6
10:16 AM 4:34 AM
10:61 PM 4:28 PM
Tuesday, May 6
11:16 AM ~ 6:28 AM
5:28 PM
Wednesday, May 7
0:00 AM 6:28 AM
12:21 PM 6:34 PM